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Charlie
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No...nothing fancy.
I need a MP3 player of some kind so I can get a few old radio recordings and play them. I have zero knowledge of these things and just need something where I can insert a disk and play it though my headphones. I have no use for nor understand IPOD stuff or the like.
I'm wondering if because what I want is so simple that I can find one cheap somewhere?
Thanks.
Charlie
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Re: MP3
« Reply #1 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 3:31am » |
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Charlie if your computer has a cd drive you probably have MP3 player software on your puter already.
Assuming you have Microsoft (windows) operating system:
Insert the disk
click on my computer
click on your cd drive icon
click on the file you want to listen to
You will need to have a sound card in your computer and speakers or you can plug a set of head phones.
Here is a link to free MP3 player software:
http://www.winamp.com/player
Others may have a preference for another player but this should do what you want. Just download the free version.
Hope this helps!
I have about 2 Gig of old radio brodcasts "Jonny Dollar", "Barrie Craig", "Richard Diamond".
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Re: MP3
« Reply #3 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 10:14am » |
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Itunes is a free program.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
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Re: MP3
« Reply #4 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 10:53am » |
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on Mar 20th, 2008, 10:14am, Killroy 2.0 wrote:
Buying music from iTunes is a different story. And it only lets you duplicate each track 7 times.
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Re: MP3
« Reply #5 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 3:29pm » |
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I appreciate it kids but what I need is a player like my portable CD player that I can plug in next to my recliner and listen to with my earphones. I love listening to stuff this way as it acts as white noise and puts me out after a few songs. Sometimes I actually listen though.
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Re: MP3
« Reply #6 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 3:35pm » |
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But Charlie, you'll need a way to get the music onto that portable player, and that's going to be your computer. The mp3 player merely acts as a sattelite of the software that's on your computer. So you have to start thinking in those terms: Music onto computer, then onto the sattelite.
Any of the aforementioned programs should do it for you.
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Re: MP3
« Reply #7 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 3:43pm » |
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Suppose I buy an MP3 recorded disk of some old radio stuff. That's what I'm talking about.
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Re: MP3
« Reply #8 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 3:50pm » |
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Now you're losing me. "MP3" implies (to me, at least) that the media is in electronic format. In other words, an mp3 file can exist on your hard disk, on a CD, in your iPod, etc.
If you buy a disc that has mp3 files on it, I THINK you should be able to play it in a regular old personal CD player (one that you can run on batteries or off an AC converter).
Am I getting close?
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Re: MP3
« Reply #10 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 4:09pm » |
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Maybe this will help.
MP3 is the compression format used to make audio files smaller.
You are looking for a portable device to replay that file format.
Some will play the .mp3 file from a cd and others will play the stored .mp3 file from a flash type memory card (the flash memory may be internal or removable media).
Here is a link explaining portable MP3 players.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/mp3-player.htm
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Re: MP3
« Reply #11 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 4:54pm » |
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Thanks Pep. You may have it.
In any case; here's what I mean:
http://www.otrcat.com/wwii-c-121.html?osCsid=v07h8sjq3jelhfe0ic20uq09b4
Forget that I have a computer
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Re: MP3
« Reply #13 on: Mar 20th, 2008, 6:18pm » |
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Thanks for the link.
I did take a look at ebay when I began looking but I wasn't sure what I was looking at. There's just too much information for me. This one makes some sense. I didn't see this one. Mostly, I got mixed up with IPOD stuff which isn't what I need.
You guys are terrific!
Charlie
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I've got a player for ya Charlie. Check your PMs.
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Re: MP3
« Reply #15 on: Mar 21st, 2008, 10:29am » |
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Killroy 2.0 is my in-house expert on MP3 technololgy.
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